such as scurvy,” Senior tells the Guardian. The Australian case centers on a 51-year-old man who came to Sir Charles Gairdner ...

The scourge of scurvy, which is caused ... The authors treated a middle-aged man whose legs were covered with tiny painful ...

Scurvy is caused by vitamin C deficiency. The patient, in his early 50s, presented at the hospital with his legs covered with tiny painful red-brown pinpoints, resembling a rash.

By that point, a blistering rash had developed on her lower leg and the pain had become so excruciating that she described as “worse than labor.” “Within 24 hours of the rash, I couldn’t ...

leg, or muscle pain. Though the condition is rare, the NHS says it’s easy to treat. Williams described scurvy as “17th-century pirate disease”, continuing that he didn’t take others ...